Penelope Ann Miller Biography

MARITAL STATUS
Profession Actress
American nationality
Birth January 13, 1964 (Los Angeles, California – United States)

BIOGRAPHY
Daughter of actor-director Mark Miller and journalist Bea Ammidown, Penelope Ann Miller stopped her studies at eighteen to take dance, elocution and drama lessons in the New York studio of ‘ Herbert Berghof . Returning to the West Coast, she appeared in Hotshot (1987) and played Daisy in Neil Simon ‘s comedy Biloxi Blues , a role she reprized a few months later in New York, then on screen, under the direction of Mike Nichols and opposite Matthew Broderick .

Discovered by the general public in Mad Night (1987), the first feature film by Chris Columbus , where she plays a young hysterical runaway, Penelope Ann Miller plays Pee Wee Herman’s fiancée in Big top Pee-wee (1988) . ), Don Johnson ‘s companion in Dead Bang (1989), Marlon Brando ‘s daughter in First Steps in the Mafia (1990) or even Arnold Schwarzenegger ‘s muse in Kindergarten Cop (id.). Other notable roles: this refined but discreet actress slips into the skin of Paula, a young woman who gives Robert De Niro

a taste for life in Awakening (1990), then shows her dancing talents and lives a passionate romance with Al Pacino in Dead End (1993). In a different register, she lends a hand to Tom Sizemore in the fight against a horrible creature in Relic (1997). From 1997, his appearances in the cinema became rarer. In 2001, Penelope Ann Miller returned to the studios by playing a grieving mother in The Mask of the Spider and opposite Patrick Swayze and Melanie Griffith in the sentimental drama Forever Lulu . Subsequently appearing in TV films and series such as Desperate Housewives , in 2006 she plunged into the horrific world of the Pang brothers for Les Messagers .